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Tie breaks

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The Interzonal and Candidates tables have tie break columns. Were tie breaks used in these tournaments? In the absence of evidence that tie breaks were in use, I think they should be removed. Adpete (talk) 06:58, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I'll zap them. An enthusiastic user added the tie break column in 2012, but I don't know if there is a reliable source. Even if there is a source, those tie break scores are irrelevant since no tie breaks were needed. Quale (talk) 08:46, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The source appears to be mark-weeks.com. I emailed Mark Weeks, and he told me that the tie breaks were added by him (in many WCC pages, not just the 1958 Interzonal), as a way to decide how to order finishers. BUT (this is me speaking, not Mark Weeks), tie breaks were sometimes used even earlier than this, e.g. at the 1952 Interzonal; ironically the source in that article is mark-weeks.com, where Weeks references old Chess Review magazines. I think the solution is to not include tie breaks in WC articles unless a reliable source says they were used; and mark-weeks.com is a reliable source only if he cites another source (as he often does). Adpete (talk) 01:29, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Game 1 diagram

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The knight on e6 in the diagram should be on e5. Cdg1072 (talk) 14:30, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]